Frankel Heads Juddmonte Roster At 350k – New Addition Lead Artist To Stand For 12.5k

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Frankel will once again lead the Juddmonte roster at £350,000 while new addition Lead Artist, a Group 1 winner in the Lockinge Stakes, will stand for £12,500 in 2026.

Frankel added 24 individual stakes winners to his record in 2025, 13 of them at Group level. He has now sired an extraordinary 40 individual Group 1 winners and stands as the most successful active sire of Northern Hemisphere Classic winners, with 12 to his name, including 2025 Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Lake Victoria and dual-Classic winner Minnie Hauk.

His success also continues in the sales ring, where for the third year in a row he topped the Tattersalls October Book 1 sires list both by aggregate and by average.

Meanwhile, Lead Artist is by a world-class stallion in Dubawi and hails from one of Juddmonte's most storied families, the dynasty of the iconic blue hen mare Hasili.

Hasili herself produced five individual Group 1 winners as well as the influential sire Dansili, and her descendants have now accounted for no fewer than 59 Group 1 performances.

Speaking about Juddmonte's new addition to the roster at Banstead Manor Stud, Simon Mockridge commented, “Lead Artist represents a fantastic opportunity to further strengthen our stallion roster. He combines pedigree and performance with an outstanding physical, possessing great balance, strength, and movement, all attributes which will appeal to the commercial breeder.”

Chaldean covered 323 mares in his first two books, covering more Group winners, stakes winners, and black-type performers than any other first-season sire in Britain or Ireland in his debut year. He maintained that momentum in 2025 with another exceptional book, including 14 Group winners, 28 stakes winners, and 52 black-type performers. Chaldean will stand his third season at a fee of £20,000.

Kingman continued to assert his status among the elite, siring 20 individual stakes winners in 2025, including nine Group winners. He became the second-fastest stallion ever to reach 100 individual Northern Hemisphere-bred stakes winners, behind only Frankel, and ahead of Deep Impact, Dubawi and Galileo.

His son Field Of Gold reigned supreme in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace Stakes, taking Kingman's tally to 14 Group 1 winners, and five individual Classic winners. Kingman's fee is unchanged at £125,000.

Oasis Dream, a stalwart of the Juddmonte roster, will stand for £15,000 while Bated Breath's fee has been reduced to £5,000.

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